You should be fine, though you're close to the point where you'll want to just go on with the story. Beating a few of the remaining missions will be very tough without a filled-out Crystarium, and you can't really get that until you beat the final boss and come back. The Growth Egg from beating Neochu will help tremendously with the grind, especially when you get to the room with 32,000 CP fights. Exactly. Note that equipping a Belladonna Wand (or its upgrade, the Malboro Wand) will increase its success rate, as will applying debuffs to Zirnitra (Deprotect, Slow, etc) before you start casting Death. The odds are still relatively low, however, so your best chance is just to cast and cast some more. If you're aiming for a 5 star rating, you'll want to reset at about the 90-100 second mark.
5 star? lol, man im not as far along as you think...i think. im on mission 53 because i took a ride on atomos. ive only done like 9 missions overall. it just jumped order. all my crystariums are lvl 4 still. (3 lvl 4 per persona) that thing does the feed stomp and im one and done
holy crap it worked!!!!!!! i hit the bastard twice(with death) on like my 100th fight attempt, and it dropped him !!!! Des is my hero!!
i sold a bunch of my items, accessories, components. i figured, im reaching the end of the game, lets trade them in and get some gil to upgrade the items i actually do use. so i maxed out everyones weapon to the 2nd of the 3 degrees. but like, 3 or 4 of the weapons have stagger lock! i didnt realize how thatd be a pain in the ***. i fought for like an hour where everyone had stagger lock. i was like "wtf is going on !!!" but its not soo bad, i just have to mix my teams up better now. but it seems like, if you upgraded with uranite, your weapon gets stagger lock.
The level 1 weapons have Stagger Lock anyway, so it should be easy to keep track of. The real problem is the name Stagger Lock--it sounds beneficial. It's not.
I just completed this game. Somewhere in the low 60 hour range. Spoiler I was under the impression that you beat the final boss, and then can go back to Pulse or wherever and putz around. But it seems as though, after you beat the game, you get warped to that last save point and have to beat them again? Whats up with that? I thought beating the final boss would unlock some stuff, and make crystarium expansion worthwhile. So what's going on? Basically beating the last boss is the last act in the game, and after beating him, you get to beat him again? So I have to go back into previous sections of ch. 13 to grind?
Spoiler Turn around. You'll see a warp. Go into the warp. You'll be back at the beginning area of chapter 13. You can take one of the three warps there back to Gran Pulse. Note that this is contingent on you having created a clear game save at the end of the credits, and loading that clear game save thereafter to continue the game.
Spoiler I enjoyed the game and the experience. I love the way they take an image from the very end of the game, and incorporate that into the main menu, under your nose all along. I don't think it was a unique thing from the series, but cool none the less. And thanks for your help along the way. We're even for helping you decide on that Mariner!
